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What are the limitations of the ASCII character set? State why it is limited in this way?
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What are the limitations of the ASCII character set? State why it is limited in this way?

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The problem with ASCII or extended ASCII is that the ASCII system can only represent up to 128 (or 256 for EASCII) different characters. The limitation on the number of character sets means representing character sets for several different language structures is not possible.
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